Book Reviews : Engineering Methods for Robust Product Design—Using Taguchi Methods in Technology and Product Development, Authored by William Y. Fowlkes and C. M. Creveling ; Published by Addison Wesley Publishing Company, ©1995 403 pages ISBN 0-201-63367-1 Publication: August 1995
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Book ReviewsEngineering Methods for Robust Product Design—Using Taguchi Methods in Technology and Product Development, Authored by William Y. Fowlkes and C. M. Creveling ; Published by Addison Wesley Publishing Company, ©1995 403 pages ISBN 0-201-63367-1 Publication: August 1995 SAGE Publications, Inc.1996DOI: 10.1177/1063293X9600400109 Biren Prasad EDS/General Motors This book offers simple, yet effective, guidelines on how to practice robust design in the context of a total quality development effort. In these pages, the fundamental metrics of quality engineering are fully developed, and the rationale behind them is explained. Designing low-cost solutions as a requirement, the book discusses the impact of robust design on the cost of a design, as well as how cost and quality can be co-optimized using Dr. Taguchi's Quality Loss Function. The fundamental statistical tools (e.g., design of experiments, analysis of variance, and analysis of interactions) are explained. Chapter 1 is organized to provide a broad introduction to Quality Engineering and to establish the fundamental concepts needed to build the reader's understanding for work presented in later chapters. The rest of the book is presented in three major parts. The first is an introduction to Quality Engineering Metrics. It consists of Chapters 2 through 6. Robust